Thursday, November 8, 2018

Last of the Year's Wildflowers

When November arrived we still hadn’t had the
first killing frost; there had been frost on roofs in the neighborhood,
including ours, but the most tender plants in the garden hadn’t been
affected. Even some of the sensitive fern, named because it’s the most frost-sensitive plant
in the area, wasn’t wilted or black.

Without a killing frost some wildflowers were
still displaying their blooms –

One of these days the temperature will be low
enough to bring flowering to a halt. Except, that is, for our latest
flowering shrub, witch hazel, that still holds flowers after the first hard frost –

About Me

Managing natural and human-modified ecosystems has been my profession
for more than forty years and for more than forty years I've been
photographing wildlife and wildflowers. I'm a lover of uneven ground and moving water. Husband of a wonderful lady, father of two and grandfather of three.

Resident of northcentral Pennsylvania, where we live on a hillside adjacent to thousands of acres of both privately and publicly-owned woodland.